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Hemispheric Disconnection Procedures
Key Concepts The indication for hemispheric deafferentation is severe hemispheric damage causing drug-resistant epilepsy. In the past, anatomic hemispherectomy was replaced by functional hemispherectomy. Functional hemispherectomy has been replaced largely by hemispherotomy. Hemispherotomy is a disconnection of the cortical mantle…